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Re: Request for topic death on Cold War history (was "RE: Every incident is an opportunity")
From: "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark () globalstar com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:32:46 -0800
On 2/12/2007 at 3:13 PM, "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com> wrote:Causality? WW2=>nukes, cold war=>arpanet=>internet, surely?
Hitler=>WW2=>... Godwin! Please? Anyway, we all know Al Gore invented the Internet.
On 2/12/07, micky coughes <coughes () gmail com> wrote:Hmm, let's see. Nukes => cold war => arpanet => internet Yup, looks ok. On 2/12/07, Olsen, Jason <jolsen () devry com> wrote:Of course, but the point was the goal of that targetting. The US public by and large believed, and seems to still believe[snip]If anniliation is the goal than it's of no importance, just bomb the densest population centers.To borrow from snarky comments past: Unless Vendor C has introduced a "no nuclear-apocalpyse" command that I need to enable in IOS, it seems that this thread has wandered far from the flock and subsequently lost most any relevance to the listserv and/or topic that spawned it. Cold War strategy is fascinating and all (I do mean that in a non-snarky way) but does it really belong on NANOG after it has seemingly dropped any pretense of being an analogy for anything list-relevant? -Feren Sr Network Engineer DeVry University
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